In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PENETRANCE
Etymology
Noun
penetrance (countable and uncountable, plural penetrances)
The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power.
(genetics) The proportion of individuals carrying a particular variation of a gene that also express an associated trait
Anagrams
• repentance
Source: Wiktionary
Pen"e*trance, Pen"e*tran*cy, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
8 November 2024
REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
Coffee Trivia
